Russian Revolution As a Social & Political Movement

The conceptions of Marx derive from his view of the nature and origin of society. Marx had a conception of human history based on dialectical materialism. This conception includes the underlying idea that the determining factors in the development, relations, and institutions of mankind are not mystical or ideological but economic. All human actions are rooted in labor activities and in the nature of the relations deriving from those activities. Human beings must secure a livelihood, and to accomplish this they organize their productive forces to operate throughout the resulting economic spectrum. Everything else in life rests on this economic foundation. It is through this economic structure that society comes into being, and the society that results is made up of social classes, with one class dominant at a given time based on the control of the means of production. Human nature is expressed in the way individuals relate

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would direct its power against the capitalists and exploiters who had dominated in the earlier era as a way of freeing society from their domination in the future and from the effects of their domination in the past: We must crush them in order to free humanity from wage-slavery; their resistance must be broken by force; it is clear that where there is suppression there is also violence, there is no liberty, no democracy. (Knoebel, p. 589) For Marx, bourgeois society is dominant because it controls the means of production, while the proletariat is alienated from the product of its labor because it does not own the means of production. In Marx's time, big industry was taking root throughout Europe. Capitalism was increasing in power throughout Europe, and the industrial revolution of capitalism had produced clarity in class relations. The struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat had originally existed only in France and England and in a few big industrial centers, but with the increase in industrialization, it had spread over all of Europe. Marx and Engels both felt that this increase in power and domination for the bourgeoisie would in time give power to the proletariat in reaction, and to this end Marx had def
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